The International Journal of Impact Engineering covers mostly human-level, terrestrial impacts, of course. But December (vol. 206) is one of the few astronomical-containing issues: Ma, J. Lv, H. He, Q. et al. Analysis of the contact compression stage and ejecta motion in… Read More »Note, Paper: More Impact Mastery
Time for the Autumn meeting of the AGU (American Geophysical Union). The big meet is in New Orleans, Dec. 15-19: https://www.agu.org/annual-meeting As you might expect from the name “Geophysical”, it mostly deals with the Earth. It deals with the Earth… Read More »2025-Fall AGU Meeting
Just out from the Science media family: Science vol. 390 #6778, December 2025Robin George Andrews, 11 Dec 2025 Planet Protector science.zolm8st Sarah Crespi, Elah Feder, Robin George Andrews 11 Dec 2025 Hunting asteroids from space, and talking to pollinators with… Read More »NEO Surveyor We Cover
In Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy for Dec (vol. 137 #6): Knežević, Z. Failures and optimization in computation of asteroid synthetic proper elements 39 s10569-025-10272-0 We track asteroids… oh boy, do we track asteroids. As a matter of routine, we… Read More »Note, Paper: Infinitesimal Planetesimal Decimal?
The mass-market title Astronomy fell off my radar, sorry, but this time we get a COVER STORY (and more)! In the Dec 2025 issue (vol. 53, #12) is: Hyman, Randall p. 16 How we track near-Earth asteroidsChaple, Glenn p. 36… Read More »Astronomy Asteroids (…again)
Courtesy of AstroBites– https://astrobites.org/2025/12/01/book-review-space-hazards-asteroids-solar-flares-and-cosmic-threats/ Dr. Ryan French, formerly writing on the Sun alone, now expands to other flareups that may affect Earth: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/space-hazards-asteroids-solar-flares-and-cosmic-threats-facing-earth-dr-ryan-french?variant=43731356090402 Admittedly, NEOs have to share time with X-class solar flares, gamma-ray bursts, etc. So the 240 pages… Read More »“Space Hazards” (Ryan French) Review
New in Space Science Reviews (2025, vol. 221): Tortora, P. Granmiga, E. Lasagni Manghi, R et al. The Radio Science Experiment on Hera, Juventus and Milani Art 124 s11214-025-01253-8 The Hera mission contains the CubeSats Juventus and Milani. The two… Read More »Space Science Reviews: Radio Three Europe
The Vera Rubin Observatory is organizing a themed meeting this week: https://sites.google.com/view/lsstlatam2025/home This meeting is to coordinate and promote data users in Latin America, and I don’t mean just Chile. https://sites.google.com/view/lsstlatam2025/program Opening Remarks9:30 – 10:00 Rubin Plenary: Robert Blum (Rubin,… Read More »LSST@LATAM Meeting
Wow, what an Astronomy Journal (AJ) for Dec (vol. 170 #6): Willacy, K. Majumdar, L. Bonev, B. et al. The Interstellar Heritage of Comets Art 312 ae0caeHou, X. Tan, P. Liu, X. et al. Influence of Planetary Flyby Events on… Read More »Note, Paper: Pix by Pix, Fly by Fly…
No surprise: ESA’s Ministerial Council approved (officially…) the RAMSES mission. While meeting this week (26-27 Nov… US holiday), the European Space Agency’s Council of Ministers officiated Agency matters. RAMSES is now on track to rendezvous with Apophis in ~2029, partly… Read More »RAMSES Has Rubber Stamp